 | James Harris - Grammar - 1751 - 484 pages
...reference tofenfible Objefts, and that in after Days, when they began to difcern with their Intellect, they took thofe Words, which they found already made,...Ideas, but either this of Metaphor, or that of Coining neiv Words, both which have been pradtifed by Philofophers and wife Men, according to the nature, and... | |
 | James Harris - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1771 - 516 pages
...fenlible Qb'ietts, and that in after•J •/ J days, when they began to difcern with their Intellect, they took thofe Words, which they found already made,...metaphor to intellectual Conceptions. There is indeed noMethod to exprefs new Ideas, but either this of Metaphor, or that of Coining new Words, both which... | |
 | Charles Davy - Alphabet - 1772 - 180 pages
...learned author of Hermes *, had an immediate reference to fenftble ebjefti ; and men took thafe wards which they found already made, and transferred them by metaphor to intellectual conceptions. Thus IDY [tfper], expreffive of the chirping of fmall birds, fignifies any fmall bird, the fparrow,... | |
 | Thomas Astle - Printing - 1784 - 344 pages
...reference to fenfible objects; " and, in aftertimes, when men began to " difcover with their intellects, they took *' thofe words which they found already...them, by metaphor, " to intellectual conceptions." Hermes, p. 269, -: the formation of a language. The human organs are not, like thofe of moft brutes,... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 414 pages
...much a iubllaative, and has the fame meaning, as the word In. common language it denotes the tttlom. they found already made, and transferred them by metaphor to intellectual conceptions. Among the relations which may be confidered rather as intellectual than corporeal, are thofe ofraii/e... | |
 | James Harris - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1806 - 500 pages
...sensible Objects, and that in afterdays, when they began to discern with their Intellect, they took those Words, which they found already made, and transferred...intellectual Conceptions. There is indeed no Method to express new Ideas, but either this of Metaphor, or that of Coining new Words, both which have been... | |
 | James Harris - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1806 - 504 pages
...sensible Objects, and that in afterdays, when they began to discern with their Intellect, they took those Words, which they found already made, and transferred...by metaphor to intellectual Conceptions. There is jndeed no Method to express new Ideas, but either this of Metaphor, or that of Coining new Words, both... | |
 | Antoine Arnauld, Pierre Nicole - Logic - 1818 - 448 pages
...sensible objects, and that in after days, when they began to discern with their intellect, they took those words, which they found already made, and transferred...intellectual conceptions. There is indeed no method to express new ideas, but either this of metaphor, or that of coining new words, both which have been... | |
 | New York (State) School for the deaf, White Plains - 1828 - 666 pages
...sensible objects, and that in after days, when they bcgan to discern with their intellect, they took those words, which they found already made, and transferred...intellectual conceptions. There is indeed no method to express new ideas, but either this of metaphor, or that of coining newwords, both which have been practised... | |
 | New-York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb - Boarding schools - 1828 - 518 pages
...sensible objects, and that in after days, when they began to discern with their intellect, they took those words, which they found already made, and transferred...intellectual conceptions. There is indeed no method to express new ideas, but either this of metaphor, or that of coining new words, both which have been... | |
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All which instances, with many others of like kind, shew that the first words of men, like their first ideas, had an immediate reference to sensible objects, and that in after-days, when they began to discern with their intellect, they took those words... 
